Greek Ministry of Labor

The government is pondering different schemes to tackle reduced employment that would see it subsidizing part of lost salaries or social security contributions, once the country enters the stage of a gradual return to a new kind of normalcy.

Self-employed freelancers from a number of professions are taking to the streets on Thursday to express their opposition to the government’s planned social security bill. Lawyers, engineers, doctors, solicitors, pharmacists, tax accountants and dozens of other professions are gathering at the University’s Propylaia at Panepistimiou Street in the Athens center at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday.